Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:47:11PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Joe Conway wrote:

> > - dblink-type capability should someday make it into the backend, albeit
> > in the form of something compliant to the SQL/MED spec. This is
> > standard functionality in many of the RDBMSs that Postgres users
> > migrate from, and it is needed by enterprise users.
>
> dblink isn't an integrated replication solution, it is a standalone one
> ... to date, I have not seen one replication solution that solves all the
> issues, and unless someone comes up with the be all, end all replication
> solution, none of them should be considered 'part of the backend' ...

You are thinking of dbmirror, while Joe talks about dblink. It's
orthogonal functionality ...

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